Albany Law School

Scholars from around the country gathered on Friday, Nov. 13, for a day-long conference called "Taking Oz Seriously." The conference's 14 participants, all specialists in legal theory, comprised three roundtable discussions centered on the categories of "Magic," "Capital" and "Difference."

Hosted by Professor Anthony Paul Farley, the James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, presentation titles included: "Home is Where the Law is: a Humbug Reading of Wizard of Oz"; "History and Class Consciousness in Oz"; and "Feasts of Oz: Class, Food, and the Rise of Global Capitalism."

Participants:

Anthony Paul Farley
James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence
Albany Law School

Donna Young
Professor of Law
Albany Law School

Maria Aristodemou
Senior Lecturer in Law
School of Law, Birkbeck College (London)

Zanita E. Fenton
Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law

Phyllis Goldfarb
Jacob Burns Foundation Professor of Clinical Law and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
George Washington University Law School

Emily Albrink Fowler Hartigan
Professor of Law
St. Mary's University School of Law

Bekah Mandell
Adjunct Professor
Champlain College

Tracey L. Meares
Deputy Dean and Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Athena D. Mutua
Professor of Law
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School

Reginald C. Oh
Professor of Law
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Jeremy Paul
Dean and Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law
University of Connecticut School of Law

Reginald Leamon Robinson
Professor of Law
Howard University School of Law

Josephine Ross
Associate Professor & Interim Director of the Law Clinic
Howard University School of Law

Geiza Vargas-Vargas
Assistant Professor of Law
Charleston School of Law